Kumoko
Contents
Kumoko[edit]
Takahashi Kumiko, the Spider-Girl
Affiliations[edit]
Solo d8, Buddy d6, Team d10
Distinctions[edit]
- Obsessive Stalker
- Natural Born Killer
- Tangled Webs
Power-Sets[edit]
INHUMAN PHYSIOLOGY[edit]
Superhuman Durability d10, Superhuman Stamina d10, Enhanced Strength d8
- SFX: Adaptive System - Spend 1 PP to ignore Stress, Trauma, Complications, etc caused by toxins, drugs and chemicals
- Limit: Emotionally Vulnerable - Earn 1 PP and Step Up Emotional Stress caused by humiliation, insults, or actually anything kind caused by her current Obsession by +1
TOO MANY SPIDERS![edit]
Web Creation d10, Hunting Spiders d10, Enhanced Senses d8, Wall-Crawling d8, Swingline d8
- SFX: Silkworks - Add a d6 to the pool and Step Up the Effect die when creating web-based Complications or Assets
- SFX: Hive-Mind Thinking - Spend 1 PP to add Senses to a die pool, or Step Senses Up if it was already included, and reroll the Die Pool on a Reaction
- SFX: Unstoppable - Before rolling a TOO MANY SPIDERS Pool, you may move your Physical Stress die to the Doom Pool and Step Up the Too Many Spiders die by 1 for this action
- Limit: Not Enough Spiders! - Shut Down any TOO MANY SPIDERS power to gain 1 PP. Recover power by activating an Opportunity or during a Transition Scene.
Specialties[edit]
- Menace Master d10
- Covert Master d10
- Crime Expert d8
- Combat Expert d8
Milestones[edit]
MY NEW FAVORITE PERSON[edit]
1 xp - when you stalk or try to creepily romance your current Obsession
3 XP - you Stress or Complicate someone out of a scenee in order to get closer to your current Obsession, including your current Obsession.
10 XP - when your current Obsession actually returns your love, you realize that it's a doomed Obsession and give up on them, or you kill them in a fit of frustrated jealousy and rage.
Backstory[edit]
Takahashi Kumiko was never a popular girl. Antisocial, a loner, she was often bullied or ignored by her classmates in school... she regarded one classmate, a pretty girl named Kimiko, as her best friend simply because Kimiko had been polite to her, but they never spent any time together. Kumiko's life might have continued on a downward spiral for years, until there came Jiro.
Nakamura Jiro was popular-- handsome, clever, with just a hint of a bad-boy reputation that made some girls dream of his attentions. There were a few darker rumors about him, but surely they couldn't be true, could they? And then Kumiko saw Kimiko out on a date with Jiro...
She followed, of course. Mind you, it wasn't jealousy. No, if beautiful, perfect Kimiko wanted to spend time with handsome but dangerous Jiro, that was her business, but it would be good to keep an eye on the couple, just to make sure Jiro didn't push things too far. Boys could be like that, after all. She had no idea how right she was...
She followed as Jiro led Kimiko to an abandoned house. She never learned how he talked Kimiko into it, but it was a trap-- Jiro shoved Kimiko into a room, and spiders climbed over her. Kumiko watched in horror as Kimiko thrashed and spasmed... and Jiro heard her cry of despair as Kimiko went limp. Kumiko was an unathletic girl, but amazingly hardy. She put up more of a fight than Jiro was expecting, and revealed the horrible secret of Jiro's activities-- a collection of comatose girls, their brains all but gone. Eaten by the spiders. Was he selling their organs? Keeping them for more horrible purposes? Kumiko never learned-- instead, in the end, she was unable to resist as Jiro tied her arms and threw her to the spiders... and just one spider crawled inside Kumiko's ear, burrowing into her brain.
Laying eggs.
Kumiko was unconscious for a long time, and awoke to searing pain in her head, but pain that soon subsided, to be replaced by voices.
Mommy? Are you awake? Please, wake up and take care of us, Mommy. We love you. We'll protect you. We'll make horrible Jiro pay for his crimes.
The spiders had destroyed the minds of all of their previous victims, but (perhaps because of Kumiko's impressive health) Kumiko alone survived with her brain more or less intact. The spider colony in her brain had spread out throughout her body, and now lived in symbiosis with her. New spiders were being hatched inside her, and they would fight to defend their home...
Tracking down Jiro didn't take too long, and before Kumiko was done with him, he was screaming, begging for death as the poison burned out his nervous system as he twitched helplessly in her web. But it wasn't enough-- Kumiko had crossed the line, and she knew it. She couldn't go back to her old life. She wouldn't be forgiven. Besides, she had her children to consider. What if some doctor tried to kill them? No, she was a criminal now. Best to accept it and move on... and get revenge on everyone who had ever bullied her.
The deaths began then, and they called her Kumoko-- the Spider-Girl. A terrifying legend of an unstoppable killing force. But soon she was opposed, thwarted in her efforts to end the lives of her tormentors by a foreigner-- the occult researcher Carnaki the Ghost-Finder.
Carnaki had come to Japan to investigate reports of demons and hauntings that killed mercilessly-- the so-called Junji Four, although they had no connection to each other until they were forced to band together to battle the Ghost-Finder. His technomagical Electric Pentacles had protected him from ethereal menaces, and his quick wits and scientific methodology let him deduce methods to defeat even the most bizarre of foes, even in pitched battle with them.
He'd managed to concoct antidotes to the poison of Kumoko's spiders, and was able to assay the defeat of all of the Junji Four. However, Kumoko may have been defeated, but unlike the remainder of the Junji Four, she was neither destroyed nor captured. And she'd have her revenge... but Carnaki left Japan. No matter-- she'd have her revenge. If it meant leaving her home country, traveling to distant lands, even taking employment as a professional killer, she'd have revenge on him.
And then... warfare. Carnaki is no longer the priority he was...
